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Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates..
Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates..
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates..
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 2.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 3.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 4.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 5.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 6.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 7.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 8.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 9.
  • Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. — photograph 10.

Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates.

Archer, Thomas Croxen · London

Author
Archer, Thomas Croxen
Date
1865
Place
London
Publisher
Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
Language
English
Binding
12mo.(4.75" x 5.875") 359 pp. Quarter brown leather with corners over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to black leather in second compartment. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Very minor rubbing to extremities, boards scuffed and rubbed. Foxing most present towards front of text, intermittent and lighter elsewhere. Pencil manuscript to verso of first free endpaper and to first free flyleaf of prior owneers and bookseller's notes. A prior owners name neatly in old ink to head of title page as well. Illustrated with twenty plates of multiple hand-colored plants each.
Category
Science & Medicine
Record
S.I.10204

Profitable Plants; A Description of The Principal Articles of Vegetable Origin Used for Food, Clothing, Tanning, Dyeing, Building, Medicine, Perfumery, Etc. With Twenty Pages of Coloured Plates. Archer, Thomas Croxen. 1865. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge.

Victorian survey of economically useful plants and their roles in food, clothing, medicine, dyeing, tanning, building, perfumery, and other trades. Illustrated with twenty hand-colored botanical plates depicting numerous plant species.

12mo.(4.75" x 5.875") 359 pp. Quarter brown leather with corners over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettering to black leather in second compartment. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Very minor rubbing to extremities, boards scuffed and rubbed. Foxing most present towards front of text, intermittent and lighter elsewhere. Pencil manuscript to verso of first free endpaper and to first free flyleaf of prior owneers and bookseller's notes. A prior owners name neatly in old ink to head of title page as well. Illustrated with twenty plates of multiple hand-colored plants each.

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Very Good

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